Sports
Football is the most popular sport amongst Mauritians. Vikash Dhorasoo, born in Harfleur near Le Havre in Normandy, is of Indo-Mauritian origin, his family originally hailing from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He was selected for the French squad at the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, but only saw limited playing time during the tournament becoming the second person of Indian origin to be in the World Cup (Aron Winter being the first). Bruno Julie, a boxer from Plaisance, Rose-Hill is also revered in Mauritius as the first Mauritian to win a medal for the country in the olympics in Beijing 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)